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broadly : to go somewhere or do something that might be considered beneath one's station sometimes used with it. slumming it in budget hotels. slummer noun. Examples of slum in a Sentence. Noun He grew up in the slums of New York. Verb He sometimes likes to go slumming in bars around the city. Recent Examples on the Web. Noun.
Nov 21, 2019 · The concept of slumming is nothing new as it has been practiced for more than a century. It describes a certain social practice, according to which, members of the upper classes of a society decide to visit urban residential spaces of the poorer lower class citizens, in most cases for leisure purposes.
Slum tourism, poverty tourism, ghetto tourism or trauma tourism is a type of tourism that involves visiting impoverished areas, or in some cases, areas that were affected by disasters, such as nuclear fallout zones like Chernobyl or Fukushima (hence the term "trauma tourism").
Apr 25, 2018 · Inside the Controversial World of Slum Tourism. People have toured the world’s most marginalized, impoverished districts for over a century. A scene from the Baseco neighborhood of Tondo–the...
a very poor and crowded area, especially of a city: an inner-city slum. She was brought up in the slums of Lima. informal disapproving. a very untidy or dirty place: This house would be an absolute slum if I wasn't here to clean it. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Towns & regions: areas in towns & cities. anti-development.
Slumming it out. One in every six urban Indian lives in slums. In Andhra Pradesh one in every three urban households is a slum, nine out of every 10 slum households in Odisha are either without a drainage connection or connected to an open drain.
Jul 6, 2009 · Slumming, or a form of it, made a brief comeback during the 1980s and 1990s in the states.
Jun 23, 2016 · “Slumming” – as it was called – was later dismissed as a morally dubious and voyeuristic pastime. Today, it’s making a comeback; wealthy Westerners are once more making forays into slums – and...
A slum is a poor area of a big city. A slum is usually overcrowded and dirty, a discouraging place to live. Some of a city's neighborhoods are fancy and full of wealthy people, while others are slums (and most are somewhere in between). In a slum, most people are poor.
n. often slums. A heavily populated urban area characterized by substandard housing and squalor: grew up in a slum near downtown; lived in the slums by the river. intr.v. slummed, slum·ming, slums. To visit impoverished areas or squalid locales, especially out of curiosity or for amusement. Idiom:
